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Excerpt from Thirty Years of Teaching
It has been my lot to be bored extensively by lectures, and to bore other people in return. All the time, but especially when listening to other people's lectures, I have tried to find out and define the causes of boredom. Thirty years of combined suffering and infliction justify me in laying down a few simple rules, which I bequeath to posterity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.